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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, ld«7
NUMBER 467
Dr. Turk Retires
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An internationally recoffniaed
veterinary paraaitolc«iit. Dr. R.
D. Turk, retired August St after
31 years of service to Texas
AAftt.
Announcing the retiremeni
A. A. Price, Dean of the
of Veterinary Medicine, said,
“The active services of Dr. Turk
will be missed greatly in this
College but we hope that we will
continue to have the benefit of
i his counsel through the years
aha^Ar His contributions to vet
erinary medicine are great and
the College of Veterinary Medi
cine has been made stronger by
hie many years of dedicated and
' loyal service.”
Dy. Turk was born in Ash
Grove, Missouri, and attended
Kanaas State University where
he earned the D.V.M. degree in
1933. He joined the faculty of
Texas AAM in 1^30 after a year
in private practice and two years
with the Bureau of Animal In
dustry of the USDA. In 1944. he
was named head of the Depart
ment of Veterinary Parasitology
ip the College of Veterinary Med
icine where he has served for 23
years.
DR. TURK'S career has
brought many awards and honors
to hiat, including the Distin
guished Service Award from his
alma mater and the Texas AAM
Former Students Association
Faculty Distinguished Achieve
ment Award in Teaching.
He has served as consultant to
Walter Reed Army Institute of
Research. PDA of the U. 8. State
Department and jj. 8. Air Force
School of Aviatiop Medicine. He
is a member of the honor societies
of Gamma Sigma Delta. Phi
Kappa Phi, Phi Zeta, and Sigma
Xi and is listed in Who's Who in
American Education.
A past president of the Texas
Veterinary Medical Association,
Dr. Turk served 12 years on the
Research Council of the Aiheri-
can Veterinary Medical Associa
tion and is currently a member
of the AVMA Executive Board,
representing the states of Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Ixniisi-
ana.
DR. TURK is a member and
active participant jn many pro
fessional organisations, including
the U. S. -Livestock Sanitary!
Association. President of the Con-
First Bank A Trust now pays
6% per annum on savings certif
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Join Faculty
Dr. Ed Harris of San Marco*
and Richard W. Stadelman of
New Orleans will teach Philos
ophy and Humanities Department
courses this fall at Texas AAM.
announced Dr. Manuel M. Daven
port.
The department head said the
recently appointed assistant pro
fessors will instruct introductory
and contemporary philosophy, the
philosophy of religion and logic.
Dr. Harris, 99, hat been at
.Southwest Texas State since
1904. After receiving his B.A. in
(jidlogy at Vanderbilt in 1900. he
traveled and studied in Germany.
Aa instructor at Tulane and
Louisiana State University at
New Orleans the last six years.
Stadelman is an ordained Dis
ciples of Christ minister. He had
congregations at Fountain City,
Ind^ and Perry. Ohio, Christian
churches.
He ministered at Fountain City
two years while completing work
for his B.A!-at Earlham College.
Richmond. Ind.. in 1964. After
receiving the bachelor of divinity
at Yale in 1968, Stadelman served
in the Perry church two years. He
was also a Naval Reserve chap
lain.
Stadelman, 34, was raised in
Richmond where he met his wife,
the former Bonnie Shelton. She
holds s masters degree in history. ,
The Stadelmans have two chil
dren.
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forence of Research Workers in
Animal Diseaaes of North
America, President of Animal
Disease Research Workers of the
Southern States and President of
the American Association of
Veterinary Parasitologists. He Is
currently chairman of the Edi
torial Board of the Texgp Veteri
nary Medical Journal.
In the College of Veterinary
Medicine at Texas AAM, the re
tiree has made many contribu
tions. He initiated the para
sitology museum which contains
over 4,000 specimens, and 6,000
transparencies used in teaching
and research. For 17 years he
has served as chairman of the
Veterinary Medical Library Com
mittee and has been the perennial
- chairman of the Texan Confer
ence for Veterinarians.
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FIRST FISH HAIRCUTS OF 1M7 ^
AH 96 freshmen in the band made a trip en masse to the Memorial Student Center Bar
ber Shop Monday afternoon to get their traditional “fish” haircuts. Band sophomores
also4ad to visit the barbers for a similar experience on an individual basis.
375 To Attend Fish Camp
The development of Christian
leadership traits is the primary
goal of 376 Aggie “Fish" in a
conference beginning Saturday
near Palestine.
"Fish Camp” is set Saturday
through Tuesday at the Methodist
Lakeview Assembly Grounds, an
nounced YMCA general secretary
J. Gordon Gay. One hundred
upperclassmen will serve as coun
selors.
Gay said freshmen will partici
pate in special programs regard
ing college education, aims, im
portance of grades, moral stand
ards and values, and individuality
vs. captfongHy.
Among 32 guest speakers from
the campus are Dr. Alvin A.
Price. College of Veterinary Med
icine dean; Dr. Bardin Nelson,
sociology professor; Richard
(Buck) Weirus, Association of
Former Students executive secre
tary; Dr. Haskell Monroe, Grad
uate College assistant dean; Dr.
John Paul Abbott, distinguished
professor of English; Dr. William
A. Luker. Business Analysis De
partment head, and Dr. H. 0.
Kunkel, College of Agriculture
acting dean.
Program topics include “The
‘Extra’ of Campus Life at AAM,”
“Vocation—How Do I Choose My
Life Work!" “How Important
are Grades!” “What is the Real
Purpose of a College Education!”
“Who is an Educated Man?"
and “/Where Do I find Problem-
Solving Assistance?"
Camp Committee Chairman
Gordon Sorrel of Wharton an
nounced recreational activities in
cluded boating, softball, fishing
and swimming.
Sorrel said invitations to recent
high school graduates were based
on evidence of leadership and
academic abilities.,
THEY LOVE
the Texas Aggie Band got a 10-day head start on their fellow Aggies, in order to get ready for the nation
ally-televised season opener with SMU. The band is practicing six times each day and will have finished 46 practice
sessions before they march onto Kyle Field Sept. 16 before the color television cameras of the American Broadcasting
Company.
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Scholarships Set
In Ag Journalism
A $4,000 scholarship fund for
agricultural journalism major at
Texas AAM has been announced
by Dr. R. C. Potts, Assistant Dean
of Agriculture at Texas AAM.
The scholarship fund is awarded
by the Clayton Fund of Houston
for use by students who have
been judged outstanding in their
academic work and extra-curricu
lar activities.
“This ia one of the finest scho
larship programs at AAM Uni
versity,” Potts said.
Last year the Clayton Fund
gave $3,000 in funds which were
used for five $200 and three
$000.00 scholarships. The funds
this year are for use as needed,
with the possibility being that
five $200 scholarships will be
given to transfer students and
three $1,000 scholarships will be
given to other AAM agricultural
journalism majors.
Agricultural journalism degrees
prepare the student to go into
any of the many areas of agri
cultural communication such as in
newspaper, magazines, radio, tele
vision, agricultural associations
and other fields. “It is a highly
competitive profession,” Potts
said, “and demands for young
men* trained in agricultural
journalism are higher than they
have ever been before.”
By CHARLES ROWTON
Battalion Editor
Members of the Aggie Band
returned to AAM earlier this
week to prepare for a halftime
performaace for the Aggies’ first
football game, a nations.ly tele-
Jones Named
To Aero Staff
Dr. William P. Jones, former
NATO Advisory Group director
and distinguished Oxford Univer
sity academician, has been ap
pointed a professor in the Aero
space Engineering Department
at Texas AAM.
Prof. A. E. Cronk, department
head, said Dr. Jones will have
theoretical aerodynamics instruc
tional responsibillQias.
Dr. Jones’ three ylaw^tint as
head of the NATO Advfkoeir
Group for Aesaepace Research
and DevelopngUt followed 29
- years with the National Physical
Laboratory in England. He joined
NPL after graduating with hig'i
honors in mathematics and phys
ics at Oxford.
His work at the British lab was
with an aerodynamics division
group that specialized in research
on aircraft flutter and vibration
problems. Dr. Jones became group
leader ia 1940 and was appointed
division head in 1963.
The new AAM professor. 67,
has published extensively on un
steady aerodynamics and related
problenis. For his outstanding
research, he was awarded the
doctor of science at Oxford ip
1963. Soon afterwards, he was
made a fellow of the Royal Aero
nautical Society and the Ameri
can Institute of Mathematics and
Its Applications.
In 1900-61, Jones held I Em
Jerome Clarke Hunsaker visiting
professorship at MIT. Other hon
ors include the 1901 Mintar Mar
tin Lecture to the Institute of
Aerospace Studies and the Brit
ish Royal Aeronautical Society's
1902 Lanchester Memorial Lec
ture.
The scientist was bom in Lem-
jwter, Wsles, and is s member
of the Church of England. He and
his wife have four daughtm.
The family will reside at 1205
Munson Drive.
vised affair with Southern Metho
dist University.
Lt. Col. E. V. Adams is putting
the band through six-a-day drill*
in orde'bJsrw the marching and
playing to be- up to its usual
level of performance
Alternate indoor and outdoor
practice sessions are being used
to install drill movements and
familiarise new students with
marching and playing techniques.
Once again, the core of the
band will consist of freshmen.
Ninety-six fish are learning what
it's like to be a “FighthC Texas
Aggie Fish” 10 days before the
rest of the Class of 1971 arrives.
Plans call for the band to field
its usual marching strength of
256 men, 12 per rank, 21 per file
and three drum majors.
Music that the band will play
at the halftime show will include
the ‘ Aggie War Hymn,” ‘March
of the Charioteer’ from the movie
and ' Moonahot,” a
new march by Ted Resang.
Music was putlo field practice
for the first time this morning,
with earlier outdoor marching
sessions being conducted without
instruments except for cadence
from the drum section. Forty-
five rehearsals have been sched
uled by Col. Adams.
Aggie Will Head
Ag Eco Students
Albert N. Allen of CarVizo
Springs, a senior at AAM. has
been elected president of the Stu
dent Section of the American
Agricultural Economics Associa
tion for the coming academic
year, i
Allen is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Allen of, Carrizo
Springs. He is majoring in agri
cultural administration in the De
partment of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Sociology.
Alien was a member of the Tex
as AAM student delegation to the
annual meeting of the American
Agricultural Economics Associa
tion, held in conjunction with the
Canadian Agricultural Economics
Society, at the University of
Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada,
Aug. 13-10.
UniveraHy National Bank
‘On the side of Texas AAM"
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Bryan Bailding A Lean
Association, Year Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
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Paul McGinty, aaven-year-old nephew of Anrie football
coach Gene Stallings, .jnrtdies the Aggies prepare for the
SMU game. Look Magazine and Sport Illustrated have
tabbed the Aggies for a 14th place national ranking in
their pre-season forecasts.
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